Arthur Morgan (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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Question 56: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount of funding which was allocated to the social economy programme in 2002, 2003 and 2004. [24248/04]

Tony Killeen (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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A total allocation of €351 million is being provided in 2004 to support up to 25,000 places across the three FÁS employment schemes — community employment, job initiative and the social economy programme. Of this, €42.5 million is earmarked for the social economy programme. This compares with funding of €20.5 million in 2002 and €36 million in 2003.